During finals week, jonah tells his friend that he'll be able to write four term papers over the next few days. jonah is shocked and upset when he is barely able to complete two of these four papers. jonah's behavior is consistent with

The planning fallacy

Explanation:

The planning fallacy concept was first given by Denial Kahneman in 1977.it is the most universal and consistent demonstrated cognitive bias that most people do have. There is common misconception related to the planning fallacy is that people underestimate the time, cost and risk that it will take to do something, If they have already experience about the task entails. It is an overly optimistic plan.  

For example: A house can be built on time, if there is no payment delay, no employee absences, no hazardous weather conditions. But there is most probably chances of one condition that can occur.  

Underestimate the fallacy will lead a project in delaying. Optimism is a great quality but sometimes it creates hazardous when you underestimate time and cost and will leads to the in-completion of the projects.

debating and finalizing the detail of the policy

a. the moon was locked into orbit by the earths gravity as it was passing by and capture hypothesis i think